Template:Did you know nominations/47th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

47th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 47th Infantry Regiment

• ... that the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) received a Distinguished Unit Citation for being the first American infantry soldiers to cross the Rhine River in March 1945? Source: Picken 1991
  • ALT1:... that the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) adopted a dog mascot while stationed in Alresford? Source: Whaley 1995
  • ALT2:... that the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) fought in the Second Battle of the Marne during World War I? Source: 4th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
  • ALT3:... that Vichy French forces opposed the landing of the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) during Operation Blackstone? Source: Herder 2017
  • ALT4:... that Forrest Gump served with the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) in Vietnam? Source: Tucker 2011
  • ALT5:... that since 1996, battalions of the 47th Infantry Regiment (DUI pictured) have been basic training units at Fort Leonard Wood, then at Fort Benning? Source: Aumiller 2017

• Reviewed: William F. Turner
• Comment: Article was first created in 2005, and was promoted to good article status on 13 August, and thus should meet criteria 1f. Article has over 15k characters of prose, exceeding length criteria by ten times the minimum required. Suggested hooks are mentioned in the article, or in notes of the article, and are cited to a reliable source. Article should be within policy, having passed GA. QPQ accomplished in June 2019. Image is the public domain.

Improved to Good Article status by RightCowLeftCoast (talk). Self-nominated at 04:06, 14 August 2019 (UTC).

• The article was promoted to GA status in time and everything is reliably cited. A QPQ has been completed. I saw that all proposed hooks are directly cited and I will let the promoter choose which hook to use. SL93 (talk) 14:53, 1 September 2019 (UTC)